Today's story is "First Is Last" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about the curious challenges that come of turning a paper book written for the eye into an audiobook narrated for the ear.

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Today's story is "Vision" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about my term "mystagogical realism" for fiction from and for Christian faith that values mystery over secrets and the wonders permeating this earth over exit to another realm.

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Today's story is "The Least of These" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I issue a clarion call for transgenre theology, theology that crosses the boundary of the monograph or treatise into many other formats, fiction not least of all.

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Today's story is "Thief" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about whether Jesus really is a thief, and how he rates according to the other Commandments, as well.

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Today's story is "Camel" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about my other odes to the camel in my Woe-itudes hymn and my poem/lyrics "Go, Camel, Go."

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Today's story is "Send Me Back" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I ask: is it really more blessed to give than to receive?

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Today's story is "Right Answer" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about what it's like to overdose on Flannery O'Connor, but also how much her views on the church resonate with me. And here's the lecture I gave about her, "Whose Flannery?"

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Today's story is "I Repent" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I discuss my first unhappy encounter with Flannery O'Connor, and how I came around years later to her stories about being hammered by grace.

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Today's story is "Tiny" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about Augustine's answer to whether we will all be the exact same height as Jesus when we are raised from the dead.

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Today's story is "Do Not Hinder Them" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about St. Augustine's speculations about the resurrection bodies of children who died in the womb or as infants.

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